“This interview is over,” he said, set off by a line of questioning about fans who can’t quite separate the allegations of sex abuse against minors in Kelly’s past and the music he makes. Interviewer Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani also suggested that his past might account for lagging sales on his new album, “The Buffet.”

“I say f–k that,” he said after Modarressy-Tehrani read him a tweet from a conflicted fan. “… I get nothing but love, unless all those people are tricking me and acting when they see me in concert.”

At that point the singer and Modarresy-Tehrani began talking over each other, with Kelly insisting she let him finish his point: “I don’t know where you’re getting your information from, but I am a very successful man. I’m a very talented person.”

“I did not come here to be interrogated,” he continued before going after Modarressy-Tehrani’s intelligence. “I didn’t come here for a deposition. Do you know what a deposition is? … This is a deposition … This is about disrespect.” He added, “If you don’t think you’re disrespecting me than that’s just the level of your intelligence, not mine.”

After the interview gone wrong, Modarressy-Tehrani told Page Six, “I thought the questions were fair, thoughtful and straightforward. I didn’t anticipate him leaving abruptly. I certainly had much more I wanted to ask, as did our viewers.”

She and Kelly did not speak after the 17-minute interview ended.

“Not quite the Monday the week of Christmas I was expecting,” she quipped to us.